In an effort to curb further rejections from the European Union (EU), Italy is beginning to soften its stance on its budget plans, allowing the Direxion Daily FTSE Europe Bull 3X ETF (NYSEArca: EURL) to gain as much as 4% as of 3:00 p.m. ET.
Needless to say, Italy and the EU haven’t been seeing eye to eye on the country’s proposed budgetary plans, causing the EU to reject the proposals due to its excessive spending, which has caught the ire of Italy’s leaders in the process. However, Italy’s deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is showing signs that the country could succumb to increased pressure from the EU by lowering its deficit budget.
“If as part of the negotiation, we need to reduce the forecast deficit slightly, that’s not important to us,” said Salvini. ““The issue is not the conflict with the EU on a deficit of 2.4 percent, what’s important is that not even a single person is kept out of the core measures.”
Salvini’s comments come as Italy has been staunch in supporting their fiscal proposals, communicating to the EU that it will only ease off on its spending plans if given the chance to make its proposals work. EU escalated its efforts to solve the budgetary dispute by announcing that it would issue a fine if Italy didn’t alter its spending requirements.
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